Tim Winter, Chairman of ACHS Visited Zhejiang University at the Invitation of ICCARSACHS协会主席Tim Winter访问浙江大学及外语学院

2016-04-13 00:46:41

Tim Winter, Chairman of ACHS Visited Zhejiang
University at the Invitation of ICCARS

From April 5th to April 10th, Professor Tim
Winter, Chairman of ACHS （Association of Critical Heritage Studies）, visited Zhejiang
University at the invitation of ICCARS. The purpose of Professor Winter’s visit
is to assist with the preparation work of Zhejiang University for the 2018 ACHS
conference. During his visit, Professor Winter also delivered two lectures, one
for the faculty and students in ICCARS, the other on the Oriental Forum of
Zhejiang University.

On April 7th, the vice president of Zhejiang
University Prof. Weidong Lou met Tim Winter and exchanged opinions on the
preparation of 2018 ACHS conference. Professor Winter introduced the background
of ACHS conference and emphasized the important role heritage plays in social
development, cultural communication and diplomatic relations. The president
indicated that the conference will provide a platform for the integration of
different disciplines in Zhejiang University and will surely promote academic
research in related areas. He also expressed that Zhejiang University will
mobilize schools and institutes in the Humanities and Social Sciences and
cooperate with the municipal government and some departments such as cultural
bureau to ensure the success of the conference.

On the evening of April 7th, Professor Winter
delivered a lecture entitled “One Belt One Road” on the Oriental Forum of
Zhejiang University. In his presentation, Professor Winter examined One Belt
One Road as an arena of heritage diplomacy. His lecture focused on one of the
Belt and Road’s core “cooperation priorities”, that of “people-to-people”
connections which has been largely ignored outside China. He suggested that
histories of silk and porcelain, together with competing ideas about
civilizations and world history, will play a distinct role in shaping trade,
infrastructure and security across the Asia region in the coming years.

Tim Winter is Research
Professor of Cultural Heritage at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin
University, Melbourne. He has published widely on heritage, development, urban
conservation, tourism and heritage diplomacy. He is the current President of
the Association of Critical Heritage Studies(criticalheritagestudies.org) and been a Visiting Scholar at the University of
Cambridge, The Getty and Asia Research Institute, Singapore. His recent books
include The Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia and Shanghai Expo: an international forum on the future of cities. He is currently working on a book on heritage
diplomacy.